It’s that time of year again … when the wizards behind the curtain at MMP let the drapery fall and give us a glimpse of what’s to come on the ASL front. And I must say 2023 is looking to be another Bank Bustertm!
Here’s the 2023 ASL Production Forecast (subject to change, in no particular order, etc):
ASL
- Winter Offensive Bonus Pack #14 released
- Drop Zone: Sainte Mère Église HASL released
- The Marco Polo Bridge HASL will go on pre-order (2022 carryover)
- Designed by Ken Dunn
- Chinese vs. Japanese, 1937
- ASL Journal #14 1st quarter release
- The entire Journal will have an ANZAC theme
- Includes a mini-historical (?)
- Contested Lands HASL will go on pre-order (1948 Arab-Israeli War)
- Talk is this will be a “core module”
- New boards with new terrain
- Arab/Israeli orders of battle
- Applicable Chapter H
- Additional rules for nationalities/terrain
- Ponyri Station themed HASL will go on pre-order (title unknown?)
- Info is that the CG is 6 turns long, fairly short for a CG, but has a very large scale
- Will include new terrains such as light and heavy grain
- MMP Ponyri map preview
- CH Ponyri map for comparison (Hell on Earth module)
- MMP & CH Ponyri comparison
- Twilight of the Reich “themed” boxed module will go on pre-order
- Designed by Bill Cirillo and Sean Deller
- Late war urban righting in Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Budapest etc
- Think Action Pack on steroids, but not HASL
- Will include the German SS OB (non-black counters)
- New Boards 16a/b, 17a/b, 18a/b, 19a/b (?)
- New scenarios (all urban action)
- Large railroad overlays
- Large graveyard overlays
- Armies of Oblivion reprint
- Doomed Battalions reprint
- Solitaire ASL reprint being “worked on”
- Presumably, this needs to be laid out again from the ground up
ASLSK
- The Marco Polo Bridge HASL will go on pre-order (SK version)
- This will be a separate version from the full ASL version
- Chinese vs. Japanese, 1937
- Will include OBA rules (presumably directly from DAE)
- Will include night rules, one CG date is played at night
- Ownership of ASLSK#4 is required
- ASLSK Expansion Pack 3 released
- ASLSK Journal should be released
- Potential ASL-Players.net/ASL Academy article included in this one. “If…Then…Elst”, a tactical perspective article about the Decision At Elst campaign game. Keep your fingers crossed!
- Two (maybe three) ASLSK scenarios were submitted as well
That’s enough ASL to keep you busy for a while. As always … get your wallets ready and pre-order often!!
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